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Learn to better control costs for print and digital resourcesfrom recognized leaders in library administration!

Academic libraries have been using electronic resources for several years, yet library administrators still find that the evolution from print to digital takes meticulous planning. Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources is a collection of eight presentations from the 2004 University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference focusing on the ways academic research libraries can successfully make the transition from print materials to electronic resources. Respected authorities offer effective strategies to efficiently coordinate the use of digital materials in the contemporary research library.

As acquisition budgets tighten and fresh emphasis is placed upon finding strategies to afford needed resources, library administrators find it increasingly difficult to meet the challenge of providing information to today’s students and scholars. Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources focuses on innovative, practical solutions to difficult problems facing librarians and library administrators today and in the coming decade. The book is carefully referenced and includes tables and charts to clearly explain data.

the historical and contextual considerations that have made collections cooperation difficult to achieveand a global resources network initiative that may answer the challenge

transforming scholarship’s role by offering access to the raw material of researchoffering new opportunities for access to a greater range of information

the responsibilities of research libraries in a rapidly evolving digital world

Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources is essential reading for senior library administrators in public, special, and academic libraries, as well as acquisitions, reference, collection development, and systems librarians.

What People Are Saying

James M. Matarazzo PhD

James M. Matarazzo, PhD, Dean & Professor Emeritus, Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Boston
OUTSTANDING. . . . A MUST-READ. Dean Lee has done it again by recruiting the best in our fields to write on topics of critical importance to the future of libraries, librarians, and publishing. . . . Timely, expert advice from leaders in libraries, academia, and publishing. . . . This book is a real continuing education opportunity. It will open your eyes to the problems and possibilities surrounding collections and database access to needed publications. Read and learn!

Barbara L. Dewey

Barbara I. Dewey, MA, Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
A MUST FOR ACADEMIC LEADERS who are committed to the relevancy of new scholarship built on the shoulders of those who came before, and to the rigorous education and training of future scholars. This book provides a multifaceted overview of issues, challenges, and opportunities for librarians, faculty, administrators, and publishers whose mission intersects with digital scholarship.

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Reviewer: Marian T. Simonson, MSLS (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)Description: This book is a collection of papers presented at the 2004 University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference on managing digital resources for research libraries. The authors and editor represent various backgrounds including research libraries, publishers from the profit and non-profit sectors, and a research library organization.Purpose: The authors discuss the trend of transforming collections from print to digital formats and how it affects library services and budgets as well as its roles in the publishing marketplace and academic environment. The editor has compiled a worthy group of papers that address a timely subject.Audience: Although focused on academic research libraries, the book is applicable to all types of libraries. Librarians in collection development, access management, and administration would benefit from reading it. The editor and the chapter authors are all experts in their varying fields and bring their own perspectives to the topic.Features: Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of shifting collections from a print to digital environment. The library's role as the central repository of information in the university is shifting as well, and various authors suggest ways to keep the library in the mainstream of university activities. Open access publishing, and its effect on the library, scholarly communication, and STM publishers, is also discussed in several chapters. Access management has become the buzzword for the new phase of collection development in which paradoxically cooperation, competition, and resource-sharing initiatives play central roles. Funding, or more appropriately, the competition for scarce funds, is a recurring theme with examples of how libraries are allocating their budgets.Assessment: Since this is a compilation of papers presented at a conference, some chapters don't have references, but that is not a shortcoming. The information is timely; the chapters are well written by experts in their fields, and the editor should be commended for compiling a worthy publication. I recommend reading this work to get a snapshot of collection issues facing libraries in 2005.
3 Stars from Doody

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